A Justice Department civil rights investigation concludes the Ferguson Police Department and the city's municipal court engaged in a "pattern and practice" of discrimination against African Americans, according to a U.S. law enforcement official.

After postponing its first execution of a woman in 70 years due to "cloudy" lethal injection drugs, Georgia has indefinitely postponed at least one other execution until it can analyze the cocktail it uses for the procedures, the state said Tuesday.

Gen. David Petraeus is expected to plead guilty to federal charges under a proposed agreement to settle a Justice Department investigation into whether he provided the classified information to his biographer and mistress, according a U.S. official briefed on the proposed deal.

A Massachusetts teenager faces a pretrial hearing in April on involuntary manslaughter charges for allegedly sending text messages urging a friend to commit suicide, even after he expressed second thoughts, authorities said Saturday.

The engineer at the helm of a commuter train that crashed into a pickup truck and derailed last week in Oxnard, California, has died from his injuries, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office.

There's a $30,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of a bank robbery trio known as the Black Hat Bandits, suspected in a two-month string of robberies across Maryland and Virginia, the latest coming Monday.

The Obama administration is bracing for Benjamin Netanyahu to spill secret details of Iran nuclear talks, as both camps traded last-minute political jabs ahead of the Israeli prime minister's controversial address to Congress Tuesday.